Fiche du document
2002
Copyright PERSEE 2003-2023. Works reproduced on the PERSEE website are protected by the general rules of the Code of Intellectual Property. For strictly private, scientific or teaching purposes excluding all commercial use, reproduction and communication to the public of this document is permitted on condition that its origin and copyright are clearly mentionned.
Mots-clés
TOMS ; Arabia ; Dust stormsSujets proches
Atmospheric dust Dusts Dust particlesCiter ce document
Andrew Shaw Goudie et al., « Dust storms in the Middle East. », Bulletins de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, ID : 10.3406/barb.2002.28319
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
Dust storms are widespread in the Middle East and their gen¬ eral distribution is known from climatic data from ground mete¬ orological stations. However, the Total Ozone Mapping Spec¬ trometer (TOMS) enables a more perfect picture to be gained for those many areas where meteorological data are sparse. TOMS analysis permits the seasonal pattern of dust storm activ¬ ity, the spatial pattern of dust storm activity and the passage of major dust events to be plotted. The summer months are the time of greatest dust storm activity, and the borderland between Oman and Saudi Arabia seems to have the greatest level of dust activity in the area. From time to time major dust-producing sys¬ tems cross from the northern Sahara and from the Red Sea region into Arabia. For reasons that are not clear, the Kuwait-southern Iraq area does not appear to be such a significant dust source region as the meteorological data would suggest.